In Canada, for example, Scientologists founded the national “Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life” campaign, which serves as a key force in turning youth away from drugs before they start.

The campaign has gained the support and participation of entertainment and sports figures because of their appeal to youth—such as the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team, the Toronto Argonauts and the Saskatchewan Roughriders football teams, all of whom have signed the “Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life” Honor Roll and serve as examples for Canada’s young.

Canadian city officials have also lent their support to the campaign. In eleven cities in the province of Ontario, mayors have proclaimed March 13—L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday—“Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life” Day in their cities, commemorating the Church’s campaign (for more on Canadian Anti-Drug Campaign, click here).

Scientologists in Germany, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Italy and the United Kingdom also lead successful and popular “Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life” campaigns.

The Italians, who have a “Say No to Drugs” Honor Roll, enlisted the support of Philips, Italy’s most famous volleyball team. And while touring Italy, members of the legendary Spanish football team, Real Madrid, each signed the honor roll. Further maintaining a high profile in the field of sports, the Church’s anti-drug campaign sponsors major sporting events to heighten public awareness of the problem and its solution (for more on Italian Anti-Drug Campaign, click here).

In Denmark, the “Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life” association has been educating members of Parliament, city officials, police chiefs and other community leaders on the dangers of drug use—particularly the liabilities of methadone. Danish Scientologists loudly decried this psychiatric “quick fix,” with thousands of signatures on the “Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life” Honor Roll (for more on Denmark Anti-Drug Campaign, click here).

In Germany, which also faces a methadone problem of frightening proportions, Scientologists in Hamburg published a brochure which described the destructiveness of methadone “therapy,” distributing more than 50,000 copies of it throughout the city. This led to a long-overdue national exposé of abuses occurring in Hamburg’s “Needle Park” (for more on Germany Anti-Drug Campaign, click here).